Spain is just paying tribute to its 20th-century avant-garde heritage, i.e. Picasso and Dali.
There’s simply too many things to restore. They are building metro in my town now. They started working on a new line, digging under first street and boom, Roman graveyard. Had to examine and remove 500 graves before they could continue. It’s like that all the time. So yeah, sometimes people don’t wait for specialists or permits and fuck things up. It’s not that often and it happens to some less important works. It’s only in the news because it’s funny.
That can’t be accidental? Someone has a shitty humour.
I’m starting to think you don’t take art to Spain to be restored…
Picture from OP’s meme can be found here (via article in OP’s link): https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/11/11/the-potato-head-of-palencia-defaced-spanish-statue-latest-victim-of-botched-restoration
It lookes like they ruined more than just the face. All the decorations to the right of the face looks different as well.
How do you fuck up so badly?
I kinda wonder if it’s panic at some point. Like they make a fuck up and then start going “maybe this will fix it, maybe this will fix it” and it’s just getting progressively worse but they can’t stop themselves.
I see this with my kids sometimes, without the panic, they see that they’ve messed up a line when painting and they try to fix it but they do the same thing just slightly over, rinse repeat until a 7mm line is now 30mm thick.
Too cheap to hire the expert.
Jim Carrey vibes
I thought the lady with that gift had already died.
At this point some of these “accidental” restorations have to be on purpose.
modern day relics: boost church attendance and pilgrimage by butchering one or your ancient sculptures or paintings. it’s about as honest as claiming you have the left testicle of joseph in your church.
Never attribute malice to that which is easily explained by incompetence.
Like directors cuts and remakes art “restoration” should be banned.
I ALWAYS choose the Director’s Cut. That’s the Director’s real vision, before the studio fucks with it for profit reasons.
Looks like that cantina guy in A New Hope who threatens Obi-Wan.
Reminds me of
this Trump picture
You dirty rat. You put that under the spoiler tag to sucker me into looking at that unholy thing.
I should not have clicked. It could have been something nice like tubgirl or goatse.
Oh my God it’s the second coming of Ecce Homo
Mysterious ways, alright
Ecchi homo sounds like the name of a yaoi series…
Damn, the after looks like a face after reconstructive surgery from being mauled by an animal.
